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...hearing on the food-handling charge will be held in McComb today; an NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund representative in McComb said the cage would probably be bound over to a Pike County court for trial later...
Warning the men to steer clear of any further racial clashes, Pike County Circuit Judge W. H. Watkins Jr. said he suspended the sentences because the men were "mostly young; all came from good families who were shocked at their involvement; and deserved another chance...
...chances of so formal a rebuke were small; the Episcopalians have not held a heresy trial since 1925. Nonetheless, some bishops felt that Pike should be urged to keep his controversial theological views to himself. Meanwhile, the convention delegates were occupied with the crowded agenda of their meeting. Among other first-week resolutions, they...
Until Hines's election, the major order of business at the Episcopalians' triennial general convention, most of the excitement in St. Louis had been generated by Bishop Pike. A onetime lawyer with a well-tested flair for infuriating conventional Episcopalians with his unconventional views, Pike declared in a sermon in St. Louis that to accept "historically conditioned" doctrines as eternal truths is nothing but "well-intentioned idolatry." One such doctrine is the Trinity, said Pike, since the meaning of the terms used to express it-three persons in one nature-has changed so much over the centuries that...
...Martyr's Trial? Put that way, Pike's proposal made a measure of sense-although the sermon probably confirmed the belief of his critics that Pike is a secret Unitarian. Snapped Bishop Edward Welles of West Missouri: "When Bishop Pike presumes unilaterally to declare the dogma of the Trinity to be nonessential, one wonders if he is not surrendering to a deep-rooted psychological compulsion to become a martyr. Perhaps he yearns to be tried for heresy...